A man at the center of a lawsuit challenging Las Vegas police’s collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement was released to federal agents without any notice to his attorneys and in defiance of a court order, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada.

Sergio Morais-Hechavarria was transferred to a Texas immigration facility on Oct. 16, three days after the ACLU filed the suit against the Metropolitan Police Department related to its 287(g) agreement with ICE, according to an amended complaint filed Thursday.

The program allows Metro staff at the Clark County Detention Center to notify ICE when certain “foreign born” inmates are booked at the jail. If ICE wants to take custody of inmates, corrections officers are able to serve warrants that allow federal agents

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